Transformers 2: Worst Movie of the Year (Multiple Categories!)
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Worst Picture:
Transformers 2
Worst Director:
Michael Bay -Transformers 2
Worst Screenplay:
Transformers 2
I'm sure Bay is laughing as he is going to the bank. Still. Its a bit of egotistical satisfaction to see so much of the public agreed against the people here unwilling to get past "just leave your mind at the door/Its just a movie" defense.
Worst Picture:
Transformers 2
Worst Director:
Michael Bay -Transformers 2
Worst Screenplay:
Transformers 2
I'm sure Bay is laughing as he is going to the bank. Still. Its a bit of egotistical satisfaction to see so much of the public agreed against the people here unwilling to get past "just leave your mind at the door/Its just a movie" defense.
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Great actors and characters but CRAP screenplay.
Trans2 was just like Trans1 but with random dog and robot humping.
and land of the lost was amazing!!!!! but wolverine was another level of terrible! dont understand how trannies 2 was worse haha
Yep. And if you don't. Sucks to be you.
I don't think we need the award to know it was an abhorent excuse for a film.
But hey, toe thumbs has nice jugs so it's not all bad. :P
Edit: Nevermind, my bad it was released on the tail end of 2008.
BTW I thought Where the Wild things are was amazing, my film of the year. I guarantee you won't have seen anything like it before!
I liked Star Trek too though, big budget done right!!!
Worst Picture:
Avatar
Worst Director:
James Cameron
Worst Screenplay:
Avatar
In light of all that "Unobtanium" should have been the category for Camerons Academy Award.
where the wild things was amazing, although i feel you have to have been amazingly creative and have divorced parents as a child to fully enjoy it.
And yeah, i know every action movie has to have comic relief, especially if its pg 13, but i really wish those types of scenes were left out of transformers 1 and 2. Change shia to someone else, get rid of the comic relief, and i think both of them would've been okay.
I love how they like to take every opportunity they can to make fun of battlefield earth too...
I don't care what the Razzle thing says. I loved "Land of the Lost", I mean... it was catagorized under "comedy" considering it was a remake. You gotta give it credit for what it was aiming for...."Teresa Tacos!" :P
The only thing that makes Transformers worth watching is the MST3K guys from RiffTrax >
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Personally the transformer movies were focused on the humans more than the robots. Not to mention the transformers were poorly designed in my opinion, just too much noise in the designs.
The lack of a decent story never helped either
is there a certain minimum popularity the movie should have?
Transformers 2, though not a great movie, was definitely not the worst released last year.
But do you remember the bit where they had the existential talk about what it means to be a robot?
There was one?
I agree with indian_boy, it wasn't that great but it certainly wasn't the worst.
My two £
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html
Oh and turns our sandra bullock turned up and accepted her razzie, haha.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8554035.stm
Oh yeah : ) I already have HUGE respect for Mr. Cameron and I've seen the very article on BBC.co.uk before. Funny stuff.
I did enjoy where the wild things are but my buddy hyped it so much before I saw it and then I watched it and was really disappointed. I kept expecting it to get going but it never did and theres just no/very little pay off at the end, I liked how the monsters were quite scary one second and really nice the next.
theres alot of hate towards people that didnt mind transformers which I really dont get. you cant honestly say GI Joe was a better movie and if I like transformers I dont know anything about what makes a good movie. I think it might be because Im a sucker for VFX and ILM always does a fantastic job!!!
That was probably the worst movie I've ever seen.
Transformers 2 had terrible battle scenes. Half of the last battle I didn't know what the hell was going on, other than humans running. If I wanted to watch a hot woman running in slow motion I would go see Baywatch! Devastors eats sand, LOL, eats sand
I found a video of hot topless gymnasts in slow motion. With the internet, the excuse of Megan Fox just doesn't seem like a good argument. Especially with so many people having smart phones that can surf the internet at will.
i'd just barely caught it in my peripheral vision
one of the explosions that's happening behind them actually ends up in front of megan fox's breasts, and the clipping is horrible: u can see where the alpha is and everything.
how can you miss that? we all know the VFX artists were looking directly at the tits, there's not a chance in hell they wouldnt notice the glitched up explosion!
another vfx glitch is when there's that fight in the forest:
optimus prime is ripping some decepticon's head in two, and the sparks flying out of the decepticons eye is at a MUCH slower frame-rate than the rendered animation. it doesn't help that this entire sequence is in slow-mo, as that just makes the frame-rate difference even more obvious.
I'm having a hard time remembering anything I watched that I enjoyed less than that last year. Land of the Lost is up there but I think Transformers 2 edges it out.
Are you joking man!? Comedy. Of. The. YEAR!:D!!
Answer: It didn't
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/08/oscars-2010-hurt-locker-avatar
Cant really make comment on it though as i havent seen the hurt locker.
http://oscar.go.com/oscar-night/winners?cid=10_oscars_gridLayout_hot
Hurt Locker was ok for me, but it didn't really feel spectacular.
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I'm not an idiot, I know it is a stupid movie, but I liked it a lot and I am a crazy ye olde transformers guy. Nothing compares to the 1986 animated movie. It is from that movie to this day that I believe every film should have a constant musical soundtrack, just like my games do!
I get into the same arguments with people about the matrix trilogy. I liked it, big deal, I KNOW it's not anywhere as good as the original. But people... the hate... etc...
I agree too. Nice post count by the way ;D
TF2 was rushed as hell, if you watch closely there are even some reused scenes from the first movie (asteroids falling) and there's a scene with Soundwave that is seen twice too. I love the first one, but the second had too many problems from outset that hurt the production. First off, the writers strike meant that Bay only had a very rough outline for a story and went ahead and started shooting as to not miss the release date. The Twins, a lot of the stupid humor, and various plot elements all came from Bay. ILM and Digital Domain were seriously taxed with it too, and I wouldn't be surprised if some scenes were left unfinished like in the first one (ever wonder why Barricade, the Decepticon cop car, just mysteriously vanishes before the final fight?) I think it was biting off more than they could chew.
I think Bay can be a great director for films like this when he has a producer like Spielberg to kind of reign him in, and I think he was given a bit more freedom on the 2nd one. However, when you hear him talk about TF3, and kind of read between the lines of what he's saying, I think he realizes that TF2 was too much and he needs to reign it in on the next one.